another floating bottle piece

I made this on accident, no kidding, it was a piece of scrap with an angle cut on one end and a hole sawed in the other end, and I have seen these before when I noticed what it looked like I tried it out and it worked, but only for the bottle of worchestershire sauce. So I played around with angles and made the hole bigger and prettied it up a bit and now I have a floating wine bottle holder

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Very cool! Does it only float with a full bottle? I’d love to make these, how’d you do it? I mean is there an angle you started with and what size bottle of wine and how stable is it, I have four kids you know?Thanks~Danps hey you better oil those knife handles in the background or they’ll carck on you :-)

Dan
Honestly it was an accident that the scrap just happened to be that way but the adjustments I made were very easy, It was longer and required less of an angle, 20 degrees was the first angle but then I shortened it and had to go with a larger angle. I think it wound up being a 33.5 degree angle or close to that, it was really just trial and error but was perfected in just fifteen minutes. There are four children running around my house too! I wouldn’t call it earthquake proof but surprizingly we have been poking it all night and watching it find it’s balance point again. It shouldn’t take any time to try and balance it you should just be able to put it right up and you know your there. Also they did float without being full you just have to slide the neck of the bottle in or out a little.
-Ed
those knives are as good as oiled once the coffee gets brewing!

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When I made my first attempt at these.. I just guessed… but Neil …. NBeener… sent this comment..Cut a 2 3/4” wide board 8 1/4” long with one end cut at about a 40 degree angle, drill a 1 3/16” diameter hole with a hole saw or expansion bit 6 5/8” from angled end. You may have to sand the angle to adjust it to work, thickness of wood affects the balance.Hope this helps…Larry

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